Add in the low supply of many Reserved List cards (which occasionally allows sellers to manipulate the headline price number by listing a copy at an unrealistically high price point, which is how we ended up with Moat at $100,000 this week, even with a BSG 9.5 copy for sale at $3,400 and a played copy at $1,500), and the headline price of a card tends to overstate the price that you can actually get the card for, if you are willing to lower your standards a bit
These tend to offer the only return on investment
25th Anniversary Collection Box 1
1999 Pokemon Base Set 1st Edition Shadowless Holo Mewtwo PSA 10 Recently Sold for $21,000 [Source] Check current eBay listings here
Crazed Firecat As a 4/4 with a mana value of 7, Crazed Firecat is definitely a gamble
This is a game for collectors, first and foremost Pokmon TCG Live contains card-collecting mechanics but focuses on the battles